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Pilodeudorix camerona

(Pilodeudorix camerona)

Description

Pilodeudorix camerona, the tufted green-streaked playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of savanna. Adults feed on the flowers of Eupatorium species. The larvae feed on Pterocarpus esculenta. They are attended to by ants of the genus Oecophylla.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Genus:Pilodeudorix
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